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Expense receipts shouldn't require a search party
Adam spent 20 minutes looking for a $36 receipt. His finance team sent three Slack messages. Someone made a sticky note.
Ramp would have matched it automatically the moment he swiped. Auto-coded, in-policy, synced. Nobody had to ask Adam for anything.
This is what finance looks like when it runs itself.
Your team can be Adam. Or they can not be Adam.
Hey, it's Michael.
Quick one today, because I want to tell you about something I just finished building.
You know the frame I keep coming back to: you're not under-qualified, you're under-systemized. The books I've written explain the system. But I kept hearing the same thing from readers — I understand it now, I just don't know where to start building it on my own books.
So I built the answer.
The GovCon 90-Day Audit-Ready Program is twelve weekly milestones that take you from "I've read about cost pools" to "my books produce audit-readiness every month without me thinking about it." Not a course to watch. A build sequence you execute — on your own books, alongside your full-time job, about 3–4 hours a week.
Here's the shape of it:
Weeks 1–6 build the compliant foundation — gap assessment, chart of accounts, cost pools, your real wrap rate, floor-check-ready timekeeping, and the methodology memo an auditor could read cold.
Weeks 7–12 install the monthly rhythm — the close checklist that never changes, monthly rate monitoring, the as-you-go audit trail, and a Defense Day where you answer 20 real auditor questions in one sentence each.
Every week ends with a "done when" checkpoint, so you always know if you're actually finished or just busy. And it comes with the three Excel tools I use myself: the Indirect Rate Calculator, the Month-End Close Workbook, and the Audit Binder Index.
It's $397, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. That's less than a fifth of what a certification course costs — and unlike the course, you walk away with a working system you can defend, not a certificate.
If the last twelve months of these issues have been useful, this is the part where I hand you the whole system in one place.
Back to regular programming next week.
—Michael Harris
Founder/CEO, 4G Consulting, LLC
P.S. — If you're on the fence, start with Week 1. The gap assessment alone will tell you more about where your books actually stand than anything else you'll do this month. And if the program isn't what you expected, you've got 30 days to get your money back, no hoops.